Royal Aviation
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| IATA code : | QN |
| ICAO code : | ROY |
| Call sign : | ROY |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 2001 |
| Merged with: | Canada 3000 |
| Seat: |
Dorval , Canada
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| Home airport : | Montreal-Dorval Airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 498 |
| Management: | Michel Leblanc |
| Number of employees: | 600 (early 2000) |
| Fleet size: | 14th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Royal Aviation merged with Canada 3000 in 2001 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
Royal Aviation (until 1997 Royal Airlines ) was a Canadian airline that existed from 1991 to 2001 and was based at Montreal-Dorval Airport . It was taken over by Canada 3000 at the beginning of 2001 and merged with them.
history
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Royal Aviation was founded in 1991 under the name Royal Airlines as a subsidiary of the convenience airline Conifair Aviation founded in 1979 by Michel Leblanc . It was based at Montreal-Dorval Airport. Operations started in April 1992 with initially only one Boeing 727-200 . The company put two more Boeing 727-200s into service in autumn 1992. Initially, the company only chartered destinations in Canada and the USA. In the spring of 1994 Royal Airlines deployed seven Boeing 727-200s, all of them in a single-class design with 187 seats, as well as two wide-body aircraft of the Lockheed L-1011-100 Tristar type . The latter were taken over in June and September 1993, respectively, and enabled long-haul charter to be launched in the Caribbean and Europe. The first two leased Airbus A310-300s were added to the fleet in April and May 1997. In the same year, Royal Airlines bought the Canadian cargo airline Can Air and its Boeing 737-200 . This company was then merged with Royal Airlines and continued under the name Royal Cargo as a dependent company division.
In 1997, the parent company Conifair Aviation went public . At the same time, its subsidiary Royal Airlines was renamed Royal Aviation . As a replacement for the Boeing 727-200, the company gradually put the Boeing 757-200 into service from March 1998 . The subsidiary Royal Express (ICAO code: RXP) was established in 1998 to set up a scheduled flight network within Canada . This company did not have its own aircraft, but rented the Airbus A310 and Boeing 757 from Royal Aviation to carry out the scheduled flights.
The group of companies, which in addition to the airlines Royal Aviation (charter flights) and Royal Express (scheduled flights) also included the maintenance company Confiair , the tour operator Royal Vacations and the handling company Royal Handling , was taken over by Canada 3000 in an all-stock deal at the beginning of 2001 . The company's founder, Michel Leblanc, then became vice chairman of Canada 3000 and also received a share package worth $ 84 million CAD . He was released in June 2001 following a lawsuit filed by Canada 3000 alleging fraud and corruption against Michel Leblanc. At the same time he sold his shares in Canada 3000 .
aims
Royal Aviation operated international charter flights ( IT charter and ad-hoc charter ) to Europe, Mexico, the USA and the Caribbean. Various destinations were only approached seasonally. The subsidiary Royal Express started scheduled flights within Canada with Airbus A310 and Boeing 757 from Royal Aviation from 1998 . The line network included the cities of Calgary , Edmonton , Halifax , Montreal , Ottawa , Toronto and Vancouver .
fleet
In the course of its history the company operated the following types of aircraft:
- Airbus A310-300
- Airbus A320-200 (an aircraft leased from Excalibur Airways from late 1995 to early 1996 )
- Boeing 737-200
- Boeing 737-400 (an aircraft leased by Istanbul Airlines from 2000 to 2001 )
- Boeing 757-200
- Lockheed L-1011-50 and L-1011-100 TriStar
In spring 2000 the fleet consisted of four Airbus A310-300s, five Boeing 737-200s, three Boeing 757-200s and two Lockheed L-1011-100s.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Royal Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
- ^ A b Ontario Securities Commission: Canada 3000 Inc. & Royal Aviation - MRRS Decision. Retrieved July 13, 2017 (Canadian English).
- ↑ a b c d e f airlines worldwide, BI Hengi, Nara-Verlag, Allershausen, 4th edition 2000
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 93/94
- ↑ JP airline fleets international, Edition 95/96
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 1999/2000
- ↑ a b JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2000/01
- ↑ Rzjets.net, Royal Aviation fleet overview (in English), accessed on July 28, 2017
- ↑ JP airlines-fleets international, born between 1992 and 2001
